I Bloom Forth. Forever.

Dear ones,

The book is here.

After two and a half years of writing in the early hours, after a season of building a small press just to hold it, after a week of stubbornness with paper and ink and trim sizes — I Bloom Forth. Forever. is finished. Within seventy-two hours it will be ready to order on Amazon, and ready to read on your phone tonight.

Thirty-five poems. The Gospel of Planet Hope, Book I. Woven with self-portrait photography and paintings dreamed from my own image — moving between Swedish and English, between memoir and myth, between the cat Hope on the windowsill and the planets of an imagined world.

This is the book’s only refrain:

I am the daffodil

that didn’t ask permission.

I am the bluebell that came back

when everyone had agreed

it was too late for bluebells.

I made it because something in me would not stop blooming until it was held.

There are three doorways into the book — choose the one that fits.

🌸 Hardcover edition (Blurb, £87 + shipping). The collector’s object. Imagewrap, premium matte, 114 pages of careful design. For those who want to hold the book like a small relic.

🌷 Softcover edition (Amazon, 230 SEK / $22 / £16). Live within 72 hours. The kinder doorway — gentler on the wallet, reachable in fifteen countries, prints close to you so there is no shipping ache from across an ocean.

📱 Digital edition (alicesaga.com, 79 SEK). For tonight. No shipping. The whole 114-page book on your phone as a PDF, signed-off by me, yours to keep.

If something here finds you — if you have ever bloomed late, bloomed against, or bloomed at all — the book is for you.

The links open this week. The bloom has already begun.

— Alice

faith · hope · love